Tommy Peters' Bicycles

Guard the children . Someone said, “the trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along to put things in it.” But at the least, Mr Tee is consistent, if not amusing. He always entertained, original, unscripted, and from the soul. A candidate for Memri, he abandoned a doctrine that embodies dharma (of which he still looks the part) for one that personifies drama. If his eruptions do not make The Onion, Jihad Watch usually picks up the slack, and we can all scapegoat Malay Mail for putting Malaysia on the map again. He has a counterpart in Egypt – Mr Hegazy – a fiery cleric who found himself on the other side of Sisi’s political fence. Similarly blustered, Mr Hegazy starts slow and reaches a crescendo that has everyone in stitches. In his ‘boycott Starbucks’ campaign, his beef was that Esther of Persia is depicted on Howard’s logo, claiming, albeit accurately, that the ‘Jewish woman’ of the Purim fame was instrumental in influencing her husb...

Cyrus & Tunku was published by Tommy Peters Bicycles on January 24, 2016 “A good design is obvious. A great design is transparent.”  The maxim holds for King Cyrus of Persia and Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia, who promoted a great design in a multicultural fabric working ‘transparently’ in the background.  In 500 B.C. King Cyrus, who wrote the first human rights charter, kept religions private and ethnicities distinct, enabling the ‘racehorse’ and ‘plough-horse’ to co-exist seamlessly. Generally, the Persians represented racehorses and Arabs, the plough-horses working in tandem to better the empire and down the pike; in modern times, they perform similar roles where the former is as an ‘entrepreneur’ and the latter a ‘consumer.’  Cyrus recognised that the pursuit of ethnic integration is the destruction of excellence, in that “for a plough-horse to keep up with a racehorse he would have to cripple the racehorse and conversely, for a racehorse to pull as much as a plou...